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Carry a Big Stick

Given

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Window Shopping

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Untitled, Sunset Boulevard, 9/18/2016

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Untitled, Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, July 2, 2012

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Many Tributes to Bill Cunningham

Muses of Wilshire Boulevard

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Orange Crush

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Simply Red

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Please Resist the Urge to Caption This Photo

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Nikon D70: My First DSLR – Reposted

Copy - DSC_0021I’m going through some archive realignment ordeals lately but the upside is I am relocating older images as I go. These were all taken the few months with what was then a really hot number, Nikon’s big splash in the consumer enthusiast DSLR market, a camera that was a true game changer, the D70. Anyone remember custom tone curves?

Here are some of the shots I’ve always remembered for various reasons.

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Contemplations on a Tree – Again!

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Hollywood Blonde – Reposted

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For me a breakthrough image taken and posted here early in 2013. One of the first images where I was able to come up with the approach to color that suits me and this type of shot in this light… but also one of the first shots from my Leica Elmarit 90mm f2.8, which is a gem of a lens in terms of color and overall look. Anyway, thanks for looking!

Ascension – Reposted from 2014

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Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, December 2012

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Dressed Smart in Beverly Hills

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The Three Graces

One of the more controversial posts I’ve ever made… because of the title. Oh well. Reblog!!!

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triplets at night_barnat1600I took this shot about five years ago and have never really shown it to anyone. I think the reason for that is that I never thought I could adequately explain how amazing it is to me. I guess I’ve felt it needed explaining and I guess I’m finally in the mood now to try.

No part of the West LA area is really that bad. But this is nearly as gritty a corner on the Westside as there is. It’s directly underneath the intersection of the 405 and 10 freeways, which is to say, the junction of the two busiest roadways in the United States of America. There are homeless people camped out under the overpasses and exit ramps. It was fairly late in the evening. The feel there at that hour is probably worse than the reality. Or vice versa. Who really knows?

I travel by that way innumerable…

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Don’t Try This At Home

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Girl, Bustop, West Los Angeles, April 2013

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I’ve never posted this picture because I always considered it such a painful failure. To focus the camera quickly enough. And it really bothered me for a long time. But now looking at it, I just remember the incredible moment, the light, the beauty and I don’t remember the pain of failure so much anymore.